Ronald Ossory Dunlop

Rosalind Iden, as Ophelia

1940

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Artist: Ronald Ossory Dunlop 1894–1973
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Support: 1010 x 762 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1940
Reference: N05336

Catalogue entry

N05336 ROSALIND IDEN AS OPHELIA 1940

Inscr. ‘Dunlop’ b.r.
Canvas, 39 3/4×30 (101×76).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1940.
Exh: R.A., 1940 (222).
Repr: Royal Academy Illustrated, 1940, p.42.

Rosalind Iden was born in Manchester in 1911, the daughter of Ben Iden Payne. She studied at the Margaret Morris School of Dancing, appeared in ballet for a number of years, and made her début as a Shakespearian actress as Ophelia in Donald Wolfit's production of Hamlet during his first London season at the Kingsway Theatre in February 1940, when this portrait was painted.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I

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